Children's intergroup empathic processing: The roles of novel ingroup identification, situational distress, and social anxiety

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 106, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 115-128

  Masten, Carrie L ^a   Gillen O'Neel, Cari ^a   Brown, Christia Spears ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Empathy; Group identification; Intergroup relations; Peer rejection; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; EMPATHY; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANXIETY; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; EMPATHY; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77950916494     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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